Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
It's time to talk politics: Today: the Dutch have crushed the hopes of Europe's next top populist; Trump's unveiled his first budget as his revised travel ban gets into trouble; and the Conservatives have been fined a record £70,000 for campaign spending failures.
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
On the latest Market Wrap, mining company Anglo American's shares jumped almost 9% after Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal said he would buy a 12% stake in the company. The Bank of England voted to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.25%, but one of the Monetary Policy Committee members expressed concerns over inflation. Finally, sales have fallen at Sainsbury's during the first nine weeks of the year, but the newly-acquired Argos reported a strong growth.
Guests: Ed Bowsher,Neil Wilson
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
Our Apprentices are four members of the Share Radio team who've each been given fifteen thousand pounds of virtual money to build their own share portfolios. Today's Apprentices were Matt Cox and Olivia Demetriades, and they were joined by Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.
Guests: Olivia Demetriades,Matt Cox,Ed Bowsher
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This week on "The Investment Trust Show", brought to you in association with Henderson Global Investors, we looked at investing in UK small caps. Share Radio's Simon Rose was joined in studio by Harry Nimmo, Manager of the Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust and Share Radio's Senior Analyst Ed Bowsher.
Guests: Harry Nimmo,Ed Bowsher
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Original Broadcast: The Share Radio Evening Show
It's time to talk politics. Today: Philip Hammond has dropped plans to hike national insurance; in the Netherlands, voters are heading to the polls; the chair of the Brexit Committee tells how he got on grilling the Government's Brexit minister today.
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View From... Middlesex University looking at what's behind the Fed rate rise, whether the UK and US are failing to confront the long term drives of explosive debt, discussing if Europe is on the knife edge of uncertainty and does America needs a liberal party? Tim Evans, Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University London discusses all this with Simon Rose.
Guests: Tim Evans
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On today's Market Wrap: plans introduced in the Budget last week, to raise National Insurance contributions for self-employed people, are dropped, UK unemployment falls to lowest levels since 2005, shares in Hikma Pharmaceuticals end the day up around 8% and the drugmaker is the top gainer on the FTSE 100 today after reporting better than expected results for 2016 and much more. Simon Rose was joined by Paul Sedgwick Head of Investments at Frank Investments.
Guests: Paul Sedgwick
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Many hoped the US presidency would change Donald Trump. After his first 50 days, it's clear Donald Trump is changing the presidency. For today's Weeks Update, Simon and Professor John Weeks are joined by Michael Zweig, Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stoney Brook, to reflect on Trump's stay in the Oval Office.
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Simon takes on a reissue of a book long considered a classic financial tome: 'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' by Edwin Lefevre. Simon is joined by Tim Price, co-manager of the VT Price Value Portfolio and who's written the Preface in the reissue.
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